Employees of the Iași City Hall who come to work drunk will be fired. Chirica: “Why fire someone who is doing their job or cut their salary?”
The mayor of Iași, Mihai Chirica, said on Thursday that he will take drastic measures against employees who do not respect their duties, including against those who report to work under the influence of alcohol.
Mihai Chirica, the mayor of Iasi. PHOTO: Facebook
“We start with all the employees who do not respect their relationship with the mayor's office, with the community, and there are such cases. Why do we have to hide? Nobody is perfect, and Iași is not the emblem of perfection compared to what happens in other institutions.” said the mayor, on Thursday, live on Antena 3 CNN.
He stated, however, that situations of this type are not numerous, estimating that it would be about “two or three cases” in which employees came to work drunk, but emphasized that such examples cannot be tolerated in a public institution.
“As in any organization or institution, there are people who have nothing to do with the emblem and honor of an institution that represents a local public community, and therefore we will start with them. Why fire someone who is doing his job or why cut his salary? We start with them. They are people who have been caught in various situations, absent from work or did not fulfill their duties. We start with them. There are people who are already retired and who are on the extension provided by law, in the second category, and so on”, Chirica said.
The mayor's statements come in the context of the public administration reform project, published on Tuesday evening in decisional transparency by the Ministry of Development, a document for which the Government will assume responsibility. The project also provides for the introduction of a “lists of shame” with debtors, natural and legal persons.
The Minister of Development, Cseke Attila, explained that, starting from 2027, the reduction of the number of posts in town halls will become mandatory, depending on the situation of each institution. For the year 2026, however, there is an alternative option: reducing personnel expenses by 10%, without abolishing positions.
